Analysis
NAICS 327110 is the 2022 national industry for pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixture manufacturing, part of 32711 (Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing). Census lists 72 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 575 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 12,082 people at an average annual payroll of $53,796 per employee (22nd percentile of national industries). 54% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Census lists 6 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 332999, 332, 326191 and 327120. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include advanced and technical ceramic products manufacturing, alumina porcelain insulators manufacturing, architectural sculptures, clay, manufacturing and ashtrays, pottery, manufacturing, among 72 in all.
Its goods appear in 68 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 6911 (tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet…), 6912 () and 6909 (ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, manufacturing enameled iron and steel plumbing fixtures are classified in 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing) instead.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, plumbing fixtures, and electrical supplies made entirely or partly of clay or other ceramic materials.
Illustrative Examples:
Bathroom accessories, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing Ceramic or ferrite permanent magnets manufacturing Chemical stoneware (i.e., pottery products) manufacturing Clay and ceramic statuary manufacturing Earthenware table and kitchen articles, coarse, manufacturing Porcelain electrical insulators manufacturing Vitreous china plumbing fixtures manufacturing
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing enameled iron and steel plumbing fixtures | 332999 All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing metal bathroom accessories | 332 Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing cultured marble and other plastics plumbing fixtures | 326191 Plastics Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing clay building materials, such as ceramic tile, bricks, and clay roofing tiles, and refractories | 327120 Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing ferrite microwave devices and electronic components | 334 Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing plastics bathroom accessories | 326199 All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing |
Index entries (72)
- Advanced and technical ceramic products manufacturing
- Alumina porcelain insulators manufacturing
- Architectural sculptures, clay, manufacturing
- Ashtrays, pottery, manufacturing
- Bathroom accessories, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Beryllia porcelain insulators manufacturing
- Bidets, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Bone china manufacturing
- Chemical stoneware (i.e., pottery products) manufacturing
- China cooking ware manufacturing
- China tableware, vitreous, manufacturing
- Clay and ceramic statuary manufacturing
- Cones, pyrometric, earthenware, manufacturing
- Cooking ware (e.g., stoneware, coarse earthenware, pottery), manufacturing
- Cooking ware, china, manufacturing
- Cooking ware, fine earthenware, manufacturing
- Crockery manufacturing
- Decalcomania on china and glass for the trade
- Decorating china (e.g., encrusting gold, silver, other metal on china) for the trade
- Dishes, pottery, manufacturing
- Drinking fountains, vitreous china, non-refrigerated, manufacturing
- Earthenware table and kitchen articles, coarse, manufacturing
- Earthenware, commercial and household, semivitreous, manufacturing
- Ecclesiastical statuary, clay, manufacturing
- Electrical insulators, ceramic, manufacturing
- Electrical supplies, ceramic, manufacturing
- Faucet handles, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Filtering media, pottery, manufacturing
- Firing china for the trade
- Florists' articles, red earthenware, manufacturing
- Flower pots, red earthenware, manufacturing
- Forms for dipped rubber products, pottery, manufacturing
- Garden pottery manufacturing
- Handles, faucet, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing
- Hotel tableware and kitchen articles, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Household-type earthenware, semivitreous, manufacturing
- Household-type tableware and kitchen articles, vitreous china, manufacturing
- Insulators, electrical porcelain, manufacturing
- Kitchen articles, coarse earthenware, manufacturing
- Kitchenware, commercial and household-type, vitreous china, manufacturing